Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-01-22
NOTABLES AND NOTORJETlES,
Our Camvmsmxv.l4nlp New Work Letter.
ANOTHER VETERAN EDITOR GONE LAWYERS AND
LAwYERs-DiGSrrY AND MPUpKNcE-How FOE
TUNES ARE MADE AT rHR BAR

Our Ca0mimgs.RAAll New York Letter.
ANOTHER VETERAN EDITOR GoSE-LAwYERs AND
LAwYERs-DrGSTrY AND NPUpKNcE-How FOE
TUNES ARE MADE AT THE BAR
Special Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR
NEW YORK, January 81, 1887.
Another OF the journalistic cedars OF Lebanon
has disappeared.
HENRY B. STANTON n DEAD,
and Elizabeth Cady stanton is a widow Mr.
stanton began hts newspaper career before Horace
Greeley entered country printing Office. Thur
low Weed was editing a little weekly paper In
western New York at the time, and old James
Gordon Bennett was teaching school. Erastus
Brooks was clerk in grocery, and James Wat
son Webb was an army officer. william cullen
Bryant had just arrived in New York city, and
John W. Forney was running around barefooted.
Henry J. Raymond and Charles A. Dana were
wearing check aprons. Manton d. Marble Geo
w: . and William Henry Hurlburt were en-
(. xeclure and joseph 0 r. 0' HaSles ana were n
Just learning to walk. George ID. Prentice
wa, WAS teaching school in Connecticut Stan
OF the Charleston Mercury, had just entered the
south Carolina legislature, and Geo. w. Kendall,
ter y tramp sna
cray was IA Mr. Stanton had been q newspaper
writer exactly " years when he died For nearly
editorial associate with Charles A. Dana. Mr.
Dana first employed him on the Tsfbune His arti-
cles were usually devoted TO political topics He
had marvellous memory, which stood him In good
stead when making comparisons and drawing de-
auctions from precedents "That's one OF Stan
one day, fourshins the EDITORIAL page OF the sun
Il can always tell them They begin with the
ordinance OF 1857, slide down through the alien
and SediUOn laws, rub along the Missouri compro-
mise, slam through squatter sovereignty and the
emancipation a proclamation, and nnaily reach tho
Mr. Stanton vaa rosr,v no warn o,d ne 40.
thin. and OF medium height His eyes were In.
tenseiy blue, and his nose straight ana thin HIS
beard were as white as snow. MS forehead was
high and square. Age had scanned 1t with wrinkles
as ine as the mesheSof the finest lace. He had NO
nervousness, but was as calm and deliberate OF
movement as a Kentucky rifieman az the battle OF
New Orleans. l never saw him excited. He was
as deliberate Of mind as he was OF body; he never
his time In describing the hottest OF political con-
tests For years he reported state and other con-
proved correct. Although not humorous writer.
he had keen appreciation OF wit, and laughed
heartily at hits In debate. He was delightful
A good local reporter knows every prominent
man In his own city. Mr.. stanton was
NATIONAL REPORTER
There was nothing local about him. He knew
intimately not only the prominent men OF his
county and state, but OF the nation at large To
young newspaper writer's he was never falling
source OF Information. He endeared himself 10
them by his geniality. He was excessively com.
panionable and enjoyable. His fund OF reminis-
in the darkened light Of the editorial room hearing
his recollection or Webster, Calhoun, Clay, Ben.
ton, Choate, Gushing, Toombs, Seward. Douglas
Davis, Lincoln, COnkling and other statesmen
Gradually reporters and editors would gather and
listen. Every tongue but Stantons was silent,
and every ear was open. Dinner, work. play
everything was forgotten. The old mans men,
DRY was SO vivid, his diction was so remarka able
and his wOrd-painting was 30 exquisite that when
the seance was closed and he drew on bis overcoat
preparatory to going down stairs the listeners
Inhaled long breaIhs and dr1fted their desks as
though just awakening from a trance.
MI He 1oS s s oSy age ne never used
died that IL his fingers would only keep pace with
his eyes he would still be able TO .'hold hts own
day before his fatal attack OF pneumonia, and he
counted confidently on his becOmidg q centena-
rian. "Ail my ancestors were ong-lived, he once
sets Of teeth. begin TO feel the need OF q third
set, and hope they viii come along soon"
Only few days before his death he received
to Amesbury and spend week with him next
summer. MI. stanton accepted the Invitation, in
last long now, you know" said he. land II a we
don't improve this opportunity We may never have
another" The opportunity has vanished II the
gether 1t will be In another land.
Il Is rather odd that the public know 90 little OF
NEW YoRKS EMINENT LAWYERS
A short time ago MI. Choate. who Is probably the
most eloquent and noted OF the speakers OF the bar
in New York, entered a box at wallacks theater
and took seat quietly in the most CONSPICUOUS
corner. There was a representative New York
audience IN the..hOuSe, aud though Nj. ChOate was
undoubtedly the most prominently placed OF any
man there, he was absolutely unrecognized by the
people, and not half dozen heads were ducked to
him during the night. Many FOUNDERS, politicians
and men about town in the place were recognized
ny S NJ ana out 70 the
as their notoriety warranted Indeed, a
bald and smiling little man with Hebraic
who sat in the foremost row, appeared
by the popular ovation that greeted him.
to be quite q little tin god on wheels. In
physique he was about the height and breadth OF
a 12-year-old boy with q tendency to consumption
1t was little Abe Hummel, or the firm OF Howe &
Hummel who have made speciality OF criminal
building up their names As a man OF mark the
bald little attorney far Outranked the eminent
Jur1St in the box above his head. Had his partner
Howe entered the theater he would undoubtedly
have created more or a stir even than little Hum
mel. Howe affects check suits OF the most gaudy
patterns, white overgatters, a waxed muStache
and an absolutely dazzling array OF diamond rings,
breaStptnS, studs, cum buttons and the like.
Wherever ne goes he is naturally stared at Howe
Hummel are pushing, rushing and Self-aSSertive
men and hence they are known. / give them as
types merely, as, OF course, they are not TO be
classed In any way with the eminent men OF the
A lawyer who is famous among his fellows but
an abject stranger TO the world at large, is South
mayd, OF the frm OF EyartS, Southmayd q ChOate.
This Is perhaps the most famous OF American law
firms, and II is most happily constituted for while
EvartS does the heavy and dignined branch OF the
business and ChOate attends TO the graceful and
brilliant OratOry SOulhmayd sits In his ofl1ce and
brings the weight OF q brain that is sucked with
an endless store OF accurate detail and extensive
knowledge to bear upon the questions which his
partners lay before him. or course everybody
knows senator EvartS, but that is because he is q
politician and statesman and not on account OF
his position in the law. He Is a familiar and much
stared at figure when he walks across the City
Hall park with one OF his Juniors carrying his
little senator seems lost under his massive hat
and he walks with q solemn tread; but his eyes
are always bright and he chatters away with the
spirits OF q youth OF twenty. Nor can Conkling be
spoken OF strictly as lawyer. He OF course is
known when he goes abroad. but that Is due TO
Benjamin L. Butler came to New York and took
elaborate On1ceS In big building down town iu
was supposed that he would become the most
prominent figure at our bar. But this superstition
has by no means come true and the late preSi.
Dental candidate is really OF small importance
THE BROADWAY RAILROAD
has been harvest for the lawyers. and they have
reaped it with CELEBRITY. As the gossip goes, Law.
yer Horace Russell, who is a tall, sauve and hand
some man, gifted with fortune brains and every.
thing else That goes for making q success Ia this
world, received about $4,000 In all for his work.
the Liddy Brothers gathered in about S12, 600,
Charles B. Alexander, who Is 70 marry the heireSs,
Miss Croker, $1,000, and Osborn, Scribner &
Bright attorneys for the Broadway road made
probably moro than all these sums put together.
All of this before there was any talk at all OF
bribery. Since the trouble began the lawyers